Dial 'P' for Pink
Dial 'P' for Pink
| 16 March 1965 (USA)
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A short, pointy-nosed safecracker intends to rob a safe in a building, but he doesn't realize that the safe is occupied by the Pink Panther, who has made the safe his home. When the safecracker tries to blast the safe open with explosives, the Pink Panther returns each of the thief's devices just before they explode, with the thief taking all of the blasts. Finally, the Pink Panther decides to let the persistent, little man have the safe, which the panther has rigged with a bomb.

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PiraBit

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Orla Zuniga

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

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OllieSuave-007

This is a great, slick Pink Panther cartoon - one of his earlier ones - where he outsmarts a bumbling robber who wants to take away the panther's safe in his apartment.From constantly having the safe fall on him from being blown away by a bomb, the robber hilariously falls for the panther's slick tricks.There's no dialog or laugh track in this short, and the music score is perfect - classic Pink Panther that what makes these earlier cartoons funny, exciting and full of substance.Overall, great little cartoon. Wished all robbers could be outsmarted like this.Grade A

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TheLittleSongbird

There is much to love about the Pink Panther cartoons. He is a very iconic and likable character, and his cartoons make for at least amusing viewing. If you love Pink Panther, you'll love Dial "P" for Pink. The story isn't much of a surprise but at least it's never dull. And it helps that the gags are so great, all of them especially the ending range from funny to hilarious. The animation is simply designed, especially the background art, without being too simplistic. The colours are very nicely done. The music is the epitome of cool and catchy, the main theme is the most memorable and irresistible themes. Pinky still is a very likable character, while his foil matches him very well.Overall, great and any Pink Panther fans will enjoy it. 9/10 Bethany Cox

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Atreyu_II

This one is number 4 in the list of The Pink Panther's cartoons. This is definitely one of my favorites. So simple, yet so enjoyable. This one can make anyone give some good laughters.This is original, creative, hilarious and has lots of imagination too. In this story, our friend feline deals with a thief who wants to crack a safe. Unfortunately for the thief, whenever he tries to do anything to the safe, his attempts always turn against him, thanks to Pinky (who's hidden inside the safe). Pinky makes the thief's life miserable, causing him to fall off the window, returning explosives to the thief (which always explode on the thief)...There are many good gags in this. Even the ending is absolutely hilarious.What makes the cartoon even funnier is that, most of the time, the thief doesn't even know that the Pink Panther is inside the safe and, as such, doesn't understand what's happening to him.

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boblipton

One of the strongest of the Pink Panther shorts, this succeeds by a series of gags on the same theme: a safe cracker attempting to break into a safe inside of which is the Pink Panther -- the panther itself, of course.It also is strengthened by not having the two problems of many of the Depatie-Freleng cartoons. It does not have actively ugly backgrounding -- the backgrounding, instead, is nondescript -- and it does not have a laugh track, so you can enjoy it on your own terms.What it does have is the Pink Panther, a character with little personality, That is a weakness of all of the series. A comedian without a personality may do funny things and make you laugh, but he is also replaceable by any other comedian. It is odd that the old pros who did these cartoons seem to have forgotten that, but there you have it.

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